Culture After the Tragedy of 2011 in Japan: Ellipsis and Respect for Victims

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Japanese cultural production in the wake of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident of March 2011 shares the apocalyptic vision of the works created after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but, above all, resorts to ellipsis, a frequent aesthetic tool in a culture that values omission, ambiguity and emotional containment. But before the triple tragedy, two great figures of the Japanese lyrics, the Nobel Prize in Literature Kenz…